Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic, visionary Consultant Midwife to join our team at Sherwood Forest Hospital.
The role of the consultant midwife is to provide expert clinical care and leadership within the maternity service. By working in collaboration with the Head of Midwifery, Clinical Director and wider perinatal senior team, the Consultant Midwife will ensure there is effective leadership, education and training, practice and service development and research/evaluation within the maternity service.
The successful candidate will be an expert, autonomous practitioner of midwifery, a role model for midwives, a lead for midwifery research and practice development, and a reference for multi-professional colleagues. The Consultant Midwife will function as an expert midwifery advisor internally and externally.
Apply now to join our team and make a difference in healthcare!
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Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
About us
Thank you for your interest in this role.
Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and we are the Health Service Journal's Trust of the Year in 2020.
The Care Quality Commission rated King's Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall we are rated Outstanding for care.
For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.
Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.
We would love you to join us.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Knowledge and experience
Essential
- Experienced Midwife with experience in a senior leadership role
- In depth understanding of maternity and neonatal national agendas
- Portfolio of evidence to demonstrate significant achievement in maternity care particularly with regards to leading service redesign
- Demonstrable ability to lead and drive teams of significant size
- Experience in setting up new functions/systems for entire divisions
- Experience of successfully delivering large scale projects which impact multiple staff groups and service areas
- Ability to manage the translation of strategic intent into operational reality
Desirable
- In depth knowledge of programme and project management tools and techniques
- Knowledge and understanding of the provider health systems financial and commissioning processes
Qualifications
Essential
- NMC Registered Midwife
- Educated to masters level or with an equivalent level of specialist training and experience
Desirable
- Independent non medical prescriber
- Professional Midwifery Advocate
Further Training
Essential
- Evidence of commitment to Continued Professional Development
- Evidence of leadership development
Desirable
- Published in professional journals
- Presentations at local, regional and national events
- Evidence of contribution to original research
Skills and experience
Essential
- Understand, disseminate and present complex information in a variety of formats, using both verbal and written disciplines
- Ability to develop business cases required to facilitate service change
- Political astuteness
- Well-developed negotiating and influencing skills
- Effective levels of critical thinking skills, problem solving ability and creative thinking to stimulate action
- Effective problem solver
- Organisational development and change management skills
- Ability to draw effective and speedy solutions from conflicting priorities
- Ability to assess risks, anticipate difficulties and address them
- Confident in providing direction with an ability to lead teams of considerable size
- Demonstrable relationship management skills
- Proactive and able to work autonomously as part of different teams
- Visionary and transformational thinker
- High personal resilience to operate in highly pressurised environments on an ongoing basis and a commitment to deliver
- Ability to inspire colleagues and bring about change
- Strong analytical, numeric and critical reasoning skills
Other requirements
Essential
- Able to demonstrate personal integrity, energy and resilience
- Able to deliver competing priorities to time on tight deadlines
- Able to convey a passion for service change
- Able to travel independently to King's Mill Hospital and occasionally other venues in the county
- Able to work in line with the Trust Values and Behaviours framework
Person Specification
Knowledge and experience
Essential
- Experienced Midwife with experience in a senior leadership role
- In depth understanding of maternity and neonatal national agendas
- Portfolio of evidence to demonstrate significant achievement in maternity care particularly with regards to leading service redesign
- Demonstrable ability to lead and drive teams of significant size
- Experience in setting up new functions/systems for entire divisions
- Experience of successfully delivering large scale projects which impact multiple staff groups and service areas
- Ability to manage the translation of strategic intent into operational reality
Desirable
- In depth knowledge of programme and project management tools and techniques
- Knowledge and understanding of the provider health systems financial and commissioning processes
Qualifications
Essential
- NMC Registered Midwife
- Educated to masters level or with an equivalent level of specialist training and experience
Desirable
- Independent non medical prescriber
- Professional Midwifery Advocate
Further Training
Essential
- Evidence of commitment to Continued Professional Development
- Evidence of leadership development
Desirable
- Published in professional journals
- Presentations at local, regional and national events
- Evidence of contribution to original research
Skills and experience
Essential
- Understand, disseminate and present complex information in a variety of formats, using both verbal and written disciplines
- Ability to develop business cases required to facilitate service change
- Political astuteness
- Well-developed negotiating and influencing skills
- Effective levels of critical thinking skills, problem solving ability and creative thinking to stimulate action
- Effective problem solver
- Organisational development and change management skills
- Ability to draw effective and speedy solutions from conflicting priorities
- Ability to assess risks, anticipate difficulties and address them
- Confident in providing direction with an ability to lead teams of considerable size
- Demonstrable relationship management skills
- Proactive and able to work autonomously as part of different teams
- Visionary and transformational thinker
- High personal resilience to operate in highly pressurised environments on an ongoing basis and a commitment to deliver
- Ability to inspire colleagues and bring about change
- Strong analytical, numeric and critical reasoning skills
Other requirements
Essential
- Able to demonstrate personal integrity, energy and resilience
- Able to deliver competing priorities to time on tight deadlines
- Able to convey a passion for service change
- Able to travel independently to King's Mill Hospital and occasionally other venues in the county
- Able to work in line with the Trust Values and Behaviours framework
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
